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Media Watch for May 2008 (Issue 78)
Clairvoyance: Dr Roe, a parapsychologist based at the University of Northampton, is investigating whether it is possible to project your “mind’s eye” to a distant location and observe what is going on—even if that place is hundreds of miles away. His early findings have been very interesting and suggest that up to eighty-five percent of us may possess some form of clairvoyance or what scientist call “remote viewing.” From: After Life News, “Research suggest’s that 85 percent of us could be Psychic” www.afterlifenews.com/a/1552.html
Remote Viewing: During a talk at the “Investigations of Consciousness and The Unseen World, Proof of an Afterlife?” conference sponsored by the Forever Family Foundation ( www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org ) in San Francisco this past January, Dean Radin talked about a review of “remote viewing” evidence done for the CIA in 1995. Jessica Utts, Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Davis and Ray Hyman, a well known skeptic and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, both looked at the data. Utts concluded that, using the standards applied to any other area of science, psychic functioning had been well established in the remote viewing experiments. Hyman found the experimental evidence free of methodological weaknesses and the effect sizes were too large and consistent to be dismissed as statistical flukes.
Radin says that the bottom-line is that, if you begin to look at scientific oversight committees and review articles over the past 130 years, you find increasingly sophisticated methods where these effects do not disappear even under scrutiny with the latest techniques.
Online PSI Testing: From the website: Rupert Sheldrake invites you to participate in his ongoing research. No previous experience is necessary, and the online tests can be done immediately. Most of these experiments are suitable for use in schools and colleges, and some make an excellent basis for student projects. Go to www.sheldrake.org/Onlineexp/portal/ . Tests include: The Email Precognition Test: Can you guess who is about to send you an email? The Email Telepathy Test: A telepathy test using emails. The Joint Attention Test: In this test you and one other person see a series of pictures for 10 seconds each. In some trials your partner is shown the same picture as you, in others, you each see a different picture. At the end of each ten-second period both of you guess whether the other person has been looking at the same picture or not. The Precognitive Text Test: A test using your mobile phone (UK only) to see if you can guess who will soon be sending you a text message. The Photo Telepathy Test: Can you feel when someone is looking at your photo and thinking about you? The Online Staring Test: This experiment enables you to participate online in research on the Extended Mind. The results of your experiment are transmitted automatically to be recorded in the database. Award-Winning Director Believes Life After Death: Five-time Academy Award-Winning film director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola was asked during an interview if he believed in the afterlife. Coppola responded, “I sort of think that the people I have loved and lost are somehow still there. I can’t believe that something so specific is gone.” When Coppola acknowledged that he would most likely be remembered for the movie, The Godfather, the interviewer asked what he would prefer to be remembered for. His comment, “If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.” From: the New York Times, “Questions for Francis Ford Coppola,” by Deborah Solomon Dec. 16.2007 A Tomb for All People: A German group has gained funding from the German Federal Cultural Foundation to build the world’s largest structure. It will be a new version of the Great Pyramid but it will reportedly be ten times bigger when completed. It will serve as a resting place for all nationalities and religions. Individuals who are either unwilling or unable to have their ashes buried there can opt to have a memorial stone placed. This new Great Pyramid will continue to grow with every stone placed, eventually forming the largest structure in the history of man. From: www.thegreatpyramid.org/
Animal Talk: The December 2007 issue of Fate Magazine carried a wonderful story on communicating with animals. The author discussed Koko the Gorilla who uses sign language and has a vocabulary of over 800 signs, along with several parrots with impressive vocabularies and communication skills. But perhaps the most interesting was the part about Lady Wonder, a celebrated talking horse, who communicated by flipping large tin letters with her nose to spell out words.
Frank Edwards, author of Strangest of All, was the news director of a Bloomington Television Station. A local boy had gone missing and after two months of searching without finding a body, everyone felt the boy had been kidnapped and the search was called off. Franks wife reminded him of a similar case in New England where a horse had helped find a missing child. Frank sent a friend to Richmond, Virginia to speak with Lady Wonder. Lady informed the friend that he had come regarding a boy named “Rone” (the missing boy was Ronnie) and that the boy was “dead.” The friend asked if the boy had been kidnapped? Lady said, “No” and went on to say that he would be found in a hole in the month of December. An elm was near the hole, and sandy soil. In December, two teenagers found the boys body just exactly as Lady had described. From: Fate Magazine Dec 2007, “Animals Talk Back,” by Valenya.
Planchette Experiment: In a letter sent to the Paranormal Review, John Newton writes about his distrust of Ouija boards. Newton feels that messages spelled out with the board are the product of autonomic nerve response. He says that this is verified by the fact that communications using the planchette become complete gibberish when the person operating it is blindfolded halfway through the procedure. If we have readers who use the planchette for spirit communication, we would like them to try by being blindfolded halfway through a session and let us know about their results. The Paranormal Review is a publication of the Society for Psychical Research, www.spr.ac.uk |
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